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jimmybeersa

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Our colder weather has arrived enabing me to get back into my loft after one very very HOT summer So here is this weeks production A corrigated cardboard bridge ...a.la Robin My first post in quite a while, Glad to be back
 

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I Like It!

Is that EVER cool! Well done, sir! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

I also would love to see that on your layout.
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Hello Jimmy - it's fine to hear from you again! :wave:

And I see, you didn't lose your talents in the hot Summer. :D The filigree bracing of the beams looks great! And yes - how did you do the rivets?

BTW - is this H0 or N scale?

Ron
 
The Rivets? I have some thin card... a throw away from our local printer, My wife donated
( after some gentle words and endearments) a wheel with a lot of spikes,I think it is for spacing stiches when doing hand sewing, I place a steel rule along the strip of card and make a line of holes turn it over and you have a line of make believe rivets, the white glue fills the holes made by the points of the wheel. will photgraph the wheel tomorrow and post it. Alternatively find a sprocket from and old clock or something that has gears that suits the spacing you want mount it on a handle after sharping the teeth to make indents on the card. works well on foil or copper sheet as well
 
Thank you for the information, Jimmy.

I remember that my grandmother (she passed away a long time ago) had such a wheel. As a little boy I used it to run over cardboard to make rows of indentations - little did I know then that I was modeling rivetheads! :D :D :D

Now I'm off to a handcraft shop for women, looking for such a wheel. I'm already looking forward to the looks of the women behind the counter: "What, a M-A-N is buying such a thing??? Must be a weirdo, or worse..." :eek: :eek: :D

Ron
 
Hi JImmy, the bridge looks great and its good to hear from you again. The wheel you speak of, or one like it, is called a ponce wheel. I have a set I got from MicroMark. This for the info of those who don't care to go to a sewing store!
 
jimmybeersa said:
The Rivets? My wife donated ( after some gentle words and endearments) a wheel with a lot of spikes,I think it is for spacing stiches when doing hand sewing,
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Don't ask me how I know, but those wheels are used to transfer a pattern to material using carbon paper. You run the wheel along the pattern "cut" lines and it puts little dots on the material to follow when cutting.
Doc
 
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